Voter Registration Approaches Four Million as Deadline Nears

Despite the holiday, election offices are open in Davidson and surrounding counties. Today is the deadline for registering to vote.

It’s highly unlikely that Tennessee will be in play in the presidential election. Polls show Mitt Romney winning the state by a wide margin.

Despite that, secretary of State Tre Hargett says the number of Tennessee voters could soon reach an all-time high.

“We’re almost at four million registered voters. This will be the highest turnout you have. Every four years, this is the biggest turnout.”

 

Two heavily Republican counties in the eastern part of the state have already set records. The election administrator in Sullivan County says they have the most number of registered voters ever.

The same is true in Hamilton County. Election officials there say they’re working to process another 2,000 registration forms.

In heavily Democratic Davidson County, registration is actually down compared to four years ago. In 2008, Davidson had 382,395 registered voters (active and inactive). Today, that number stands at 364, 782.